Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTime is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
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